Impersonating Harold Ford

Last night I watched Harold Ford on Bill Maher. Or ... I watched someone who at times looked like Harold Ford. The actor worked hard at his Tennessee accent and at expressing support for prayer n the schools and totin guns as a civil right. He explained how his business cards carry the 10 commnadments on their backsides, to remind Mr. Ford of such important moral issues as not having any God but your own God. Hmmm ... must be the commandments Moses receives on a trip to Tennessee.


I feel bad. I really admire Mr. Ford and hope he will be elected. But the act was dreadful. This can not be the same articulate, well thought out young congressman I have watched parry the cable heads for the last four years. True, stripped of the weird accent and the Suthern patois, the underlying ideas were solid .. all Tennesseeans believe Their kids have a right to go to school, healthcare should be guaranteed to the kids of the poor and the rich, and more. I have tasted this man's spirit in his speeches to the Demo. Convention and know .. as much as nay of us can in this era of media deception, that MY Ford is the real one.